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As already requested by in comments, posting complete code would be helpful (Edit your original posting for that). To do a shot in the dark: What you describe could happen if your subscriber object is destroyed before your loop with ros::spin() is reached. Can´t tell if that´s the case from the abridged version you posted so far, though.

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